The poems in the 2012 volume of Best American Poetry are highly relevant even in 2018 to high school students everywhere. “The Afterlife” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “Pill” by Bruce Bond, and “The Imagined” by Stephen Dunn are all poems that reflect today’s issues and are considered great. In 2012, our generation was only about…
“Light was all business.” Posted on wall at Darien High School.
Stephen Dunn is an American poet and educator born in Forest Hills, New York in 1962. Dunn received his Bachelor of Arts in history at Hofstra University in 1962 and received his Master of Arts in creative writing from Syracuse University in 1970. Since 1974 he has been teaching at Richard Stockton College of NJ,…
I have grown up in a world of happy relationships, for the most part. My parents are happily married, I have some content extended family members in serious relationships, and I have only witnessed divorce through the eyes of my friends. I remember the moment when my mom told me my aunt and uncle were…
Bruce Bond begins his poem titled “Pill” with the line: “Say you are high all the time” (Bond). This line is bold and is quite alarming to a reader expecting a calm tone like Bond exhibits in his other poems. Yet here it is, the bold first line repeating itself in our minds, found in…